Are masdevallia species have featured heavily lately and as May approaches we have the splendour of Masdevallia coccinea. Masdevallia coccinea is a very rewarding species and produces masses of large brightly coloured flowers in a range of colours including white, yellow, red and pink. It comes from Colombia and Peru where it grows in cool […]

Today’s Sobralia is even bigger than yesterday’s Sobralia macrantha with caned up to 3m long. The species is native to Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia, where it grows as a terrestrial or epiphyte, produces its thin canes about 3m long, and in late spring these large (15cm across) flowers that last about two days. This […]

In complete contrast to yesterday’s miniature Stelis species, we have had an explosion of gigantic flowers on our Sobralias. This enormous flowered orchid has always been a real favourite for students responsible for our Warm Americas section Sobralia macrantha is found from Mexico to Costa Rica where it grows as a terrestrial in leaf litter, […]

Here is another of our Glasgow show species.   Stelis emarginata makes a wonderful floriferous plant in a 6cm pot (above) or a small basket (top) and is a star of the greenhouse every April. Some plants seem to change their name more than others. We first purchased this species in the 1990’s as Pleurothallis […]

This is the first time we have features this Brazilian orchid on 365 days of orchids. Miltonia spectabilis is a warm growing species from the Mata Atlantica in Eastern Brazil – a habitat we explored in our school expeditions top Brazil in 2000 and 2006. The species is found at around 800m altitude where the […]